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Good cabinets quietly run your kitchen. When they are designed and built well, you stop noticing them and simply enjoy how smoothly the drawers glide, how much they hold, how they anchor the whole room. When they are built poorly, they remind you every single day. If you are in Los Angeles, the stakes climb quickly. Construction costs are higher than the national average, design expectations are sharper, and kitchens often need to work hard in relatively tight footprints

Walk into ten open houses in Los Angeles and you will see ten different approaches to cabinetry. From sleek, frameless European kitchens in the Hollywood Hills to classic shaker in a 1920s Spanish in Hancock Park, the cabinets quietly tell you who the seller is and what they think their home is worth. Custom cabinets sit at the very top of that spectrum. They are expensive, slow, and fussy. They can also be the detail that pushes a buyer from “nice house” to “we have to